The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
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Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough ...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
CHARLIE PARKER Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something ...
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can eit...
THOMAS RHETT I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wan...
CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. ...
ADAM ANT if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA' Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot.
MICHAEL POLLAN They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ...
BROOKE SMITH A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
LAURA BELL BUNDY I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock...
BUDDY HOLLY Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each o...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't ...
ALICE COOPER It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with...
BEANIE SIGEL I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them t...
TIM WISE Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. ...
BETSY BRANDT One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha...
RUSSELL PETERS I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and ...
EMMA DONOGHUE They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk r...
BILLY IDOL With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR Maybe it'll be like 'The Simpsons,' and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that'...
CORY MONTEITH Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And...
JOE JOHNSTON We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ...
KARL PILKINGTON I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet...
FRANK DILLANE Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be d...
SAM HUNT The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en...
WASHED OUT I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
FREDDIE MERCURY Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today
GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We'...
ROB SHEFFIELD George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ...
STEVEN WRIGHT Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like &...
HAL SPARKS I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... The...
JON BELLION The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
DR. DRE I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a...
JOHN KRASINSKI I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Am in the making, you can't break me. Life to me, is a Chain. It will loose just at the right time b...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too si...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE 'Lincoln' was OK; I thought it was a rock-solid eight out of 10, but it shouldn't win al...
EVAN GOLDBERG I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind w...
LEONARD COHEN I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn...
BILL BURR I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation....
TAKI THEODORACOPULOS America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be...
P. J. O'ROURKE Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
DON NOVELLO People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facil...
GERHARD RICHTER 'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People c...
CAITLYN JENNER T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and je...
JOSH HUTCHERSON The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...
BAHá'U'LLáH Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,
पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams....
RAEKWON When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar term...
MARKUS PERSSON Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
KEVIN SMITH I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebri...
MARY BERRY I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
BETTY WHO 'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't be...
TOM PETTY I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl...
KIRSTEN DUNST A one-year budget doesn't mean the government won't last, and a two-year budget doesn't ...
MOSHE KAHLON I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, ...
CARSON DALY If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which mean...
ALEX CHIU Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen ...
BARRY EISLER With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's v...
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BEN GIBBARD We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simp...
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BEN GIBBARD What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and...
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BEN GIBBARD When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it wa...
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BEN GIBBARD I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal l...
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BEN GIBBARD It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your ...
BEN GIBBARD To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlanti...
BEN GIBBARD I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo...
BEN GIBBARD You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a hea...
BEN GIBBARD Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or w...
BEN GIBBARD Of all the light they receive from the sun, they only reflect a tiny portion of it which is one thin...
SERAN GIBBARD Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
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BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
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BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
BEN JONSON Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON